Mirmotahari's expertise is modern and contemporary African fiction and its relationship to historiography, religious/secular formations, and discourses of national consciousness. His work also engages the history and evolving iterations of world literature as an idea and a critical practice.

Courses

Mirmotahari teaches courses in African fiction, fiction from throughout the African diaspora, Latin American fiction, and world and postcolonial fiction broadly. He teaches courses on narratives of exile, immigration, and displacement on a regular basis.

'Men With Civilisations But Without Countries.' African Literature Association. Athens, Ohio. April 2011.

'The Question of Secularity in the Sub-Saharan African Novel.' Religion and Spirituality in Society Conference. Chicago, Illinois, February 2011.

Conference Planning Committee, Panel Co-organiser & Chair (Proud to Swim Home: In Search of the Old in the New Orleans)and Presenter:'En las sombras de la Nouvelle Orleans.' American Comparative Literature Association. New Orleans, Louisiana. April 2010.

Panel Organiser and Chair (African Metatexts) and Chair ('Revising Revisions: Islam, Gender, and the Discourse of History in Nuruddin Farah's From a Crooked Rib.' African Literature Association. Macomb, Illinois. April 2008.)